Event Calendar: Germany in the US
Whenever you cannot visit Germany in person, rest assured that there are often events in your area that will bring you closer to Germany. Browse our nation-wide calendar below to find out which events are scheduled throughout the United States, or use the search tool to the right to search for events near you. You can fine-tune your search by selecting an event category, location and/or date range.
Exhibition: Beautiful Mess
Mar 6, 2010 - Apr 4, 2010 |
German artist Hertha Miessner will have her work showcased along with four other women artists in the exhibition BEAUTIFUL MESS. Coming from different backgrounds and speaking different languages, the artists challenge tradtional perceptions of beauty with recycled materials.
Kirsten Reese: A Sound Installation for Lotusland
Mar 11, 2010 - Mar 17, 2010 |
German sound artist and composer Kirsten Reese, a 2009 Villa Aurora Fellow, returns to California to create an installation of over sixty small loudspeakers in the spectacular gardens of Lotusland in Santa Barbara.
Film: North Face (Nordwand)
Mar 12, 2010 - Mar 18, 2010 | Washington, DC
In 1936, ruthless Berlin newspaperman Henry Arau dispatches ambitious assistant Luise Fellner to persuade childhood friends and accomplished climbers Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser to scale the impossibly sheer North Face of Switzerland’s notorious Eiger Mountain for the glory of the Fatherland.
Oscar-Nominated Film: Ajami
Mar 12, 2010 - Mar 18, 2010 | Washington, DC
This German-Israeli co-production, one of the five Oscar nominees for best foreign-language film, takes its name from Ajami, a neigborhood in Jaffa, a mostly Arab city just south of Tel Aviv. A powerful crime drama is told through the eyes of a cross-section of the city's inhabitants.
Book Presentation - "Descartes' Devil: Three Meditations"
Mar 16, 2010 7:30 PM | Washington, DC
Durs Grünbein presents in his book three beautifully wrought meditations showing a Descartes whom we haven't met before: the inspired and courageous dreamer, explorer, and fabulist. Durs Grünbein is currently Germany's most successful poet.
